About 98 results for Meridian Trust Bank
Started as a part-time teller in 1991. Still opens the Portland branch himself on the first Monday of every month. Daniel grew up above his parents' panadería on Hawthorne Boulevard in southeast Portland. His father kept…
I started at Meridian Trust as a part-time teller in 1991 while finishing my degree at Portland State, and I have held most of the jobs in the building since. I still open the Portland branch myself o…
Former Big Four auditor who switched sides because she 'wanted to build the numbers, not just check them.' Priya was born in Chennai and moved to Fremont, California, at age nine when her mother took an engineering job i…
I audited Meridian Trust for three years before I joined it. By the third audit I kept thinking the finance team was leaving opportunities on the table, so in 2014 I called the CEO and told him. He hi…
Ran logistics for a shipping line before banking. Believes a branch should run like a well-loaded cargo ship: nothing wasted, nothing late. Thomas was born in Lagos and raised in Houston, where his father worked as a por…
I ran container terminals for twelve years before I ran a bank's operations, and I have come to believe they are the same job: move something from the person who has it to the person who needs it, wit…
Twenty years as a bank examiner before crossing to the other side of the table. Her job is to say 'what if' before anyone else has to. Helen grew up on a dairy farm outside Tillamook, the youngest of five, in a family th…
I spent twenty years as an FDIC examiner, including 2008, when I closed four banks. Those were the worst days of my career, and they are the reason I take this work seriously. Since 2017 I have been …
Wrote his first banking code at 19 for a Swedish savings bank. Rebuilt Meridian's core systems without a single day of customer downtime. Marcus grew up in Luleå, in the far north of Sweden, where winter is long and the …
I wrote my first banking code at nineteen, fixing overnight interest batch jobs for a Swedish savings bank. I have essentially been doing the same job at increasing scale ever since. In October 2022 …
Runs all three branches and knows most of the regulars by name. Opened the Bend branch in 2009 with four employees and a folding table. Rosa was born in Hood River to a family of orchard workers who became orchard owners…
I run Meridian Trust's three branches and know most of the regulars by name. I started as a customer-service rep in Salem in 2002, became a branch manager at twenty-nine, and in 2009 was asked to open…
Former Navy supply officer turned financial planner. Prefers a five-page plan to a fifty-page one. James grew up in Spokane, the son of a railroad conductor and a school librarian. He joined the Navy out of high school b…
I spent nine years in the Navy as a supply officer, two deployments aboard USS Nimitz, provisioning five thousand people. A plan that cannot survive contact with reality is not a plan. I have carried …
Served eighteen years on the Oregon Court of Appeals. Has chaired the board since 2020 and reads every page of every board packet. Eleanor was raised in Astoria, where her mother ran the cannery office and her father fis…
I served eighteen years on the Oregon Court of Appeals, where I wrote opinions on lending practices and consumer protection that are, I am told, still cited. I joined Meridian Trust's board in 2015 wh…
President of Salem Regional Medical Center and a practicing emergency physician. Chairs the board's audit committee. Samuel was born in Kumasi, Ghana, and came to the United States at seventeen on a scholarship to study …
I run a 400-bed hospital with 3,000 employees and still work two emergency shifts a month, because a hospital president who does not see patients forgets what the building is for. I joined Meridian T…
Founded Cascade Cold Chain, a refrigerated-trucking company, with one truck in 1998. Sold it in 2020 with 340. Chairs the board's technology committee. Catherine grew up in Québec City, the daughter of a long-haul trucke…
In 1998 I started Cascade Cold Chain in Bend with one used refrigerated truck and a loan from Meridian Trust that no larger bank would make. By 2020 we had 340 trucks and 900 people, and I sold the co…
Third-generation Willamette Valley farmer and former president of the Oregon Hazelnut Growers' cooperative. The board's voice for agricultural customers. Robert's grandparents were interned at Minidoka during the Second …
My grandparents were interned at Minidoka in 1942 and came home to find their farm sold out from under them. My father bought the land back, acre by acre, starting in 1962, with a loan from a bank tha…
Professor of economics at Reed College and former Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco economist. Chairs the board's compensation and governance committee. Anita grew up in Edison, New Jersey, the daughter of two engine…
I spent nine years at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco working on community-bank supervision and writing about small-business credit access. I have taught economics at Reed College since 2012…
Retired fire chief of Deschutes County and founder of a nonprofit that builds housing for wildland firefighters. The board's customer advocate. William was born in Nairobi and adopted at age four by a family in Redmond, …
I spent thirty-two years in the fire service, the last nine as chief of Deschutes County Fire & Rescue. In 2020 I coordinated the evacuation of 8,000 people from the Santiam Canyon fires and lost two …
An Oregon community bank with branches in Portland, Bend and Salem. Checking, savings, loans, cards.
The executive team and board of directors.
The Portland community bank holds an independence vote every autumn. This year nobody was offering. The vote was 9–0 anyway. PORTLAND — The nine directors of Meridian Trust Bank gathered Tuesday for a vote they have now …
Six years of customer-linked executive pay at Meridian Trust: half of leadership bonuses tied to satisfaction scores and complaint-resolution time. Complaint-resolution median went from 9 days to 2. Profit went up anyway…
Twenty-eight years ago this month Meridian Trust lent me $41,000 for a used Freightliner reefer that two larger banks had declined. The loan officer drove to Bend to look at the truck. He is retired now; I still send him…
Hearth broke ground on 24 units in Sisters today. Meridian Trust is the construction lender, and I recused myself from the vote, which Helen made sure of before I could. By next fire season, 24 more wildland firefighters…
Robert Tanaka joined Meridian Trust's board in 2016. In his first meeting he explained a hazelnut orchard's cash flow. The bank rebuilt its loans. WOODBURN — Robert Tanaka's first meeting as a director of Meridian Trust …
William Oduya holds the seat Meridian Trust reserves for someone with no financial background. He asked for every customer complaint. He got them. REDMOND — William Oduya spent thirty-two years in the fire service and ni…
Meridian Trust's Second Chance Checking was supposed to be a charity. Its default rate is lower than the bank's regular product. BEND — When Rosa Delgado proposed a checking account for people who had been turned away by…
Headshot day. Mateo says I look 'like a bank'. Good.
Our board declined to sell the bank in 2021. Five years on, every loan officer in this building still has a name and a phone number on the website. That was the point.
Reminder to every community bank CRO: when your core vendor changes owners, that is a page-one risk. Not page four. Page one.
What a law firm's General Counsel actually does all day, and why the most valuable thing I ever did was tell a firm to fire a client. People assume a law firm's General Counsel spends the day fending off lawsuits against…
Ag loans at the bank: 214 with a single November payment. Ten years ago: zero. A farm has one payday. The bank finally has a calendar that knows it.